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What's your favorite name here?  Feel free to comment with other names, or change your vote later.

This World Is Mine
3 (15.8%)
From a Dying Sun
6 (31.6%)
Stars Beyond Reach
7 (36.8%)
Stars Beyond Reach: This World Is Mine
3 (15.8%)

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #300 on: October 01, 2014, 10:39:56 am »
I really like "The Stars are Beyond Reach" from my recent couple.  Very much a "Don't Starve" vibe.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #301 on: October 01, 2014, 10:43:02 am »
I really like "The Stars are Beyond Reach" from my recent couple.  Very much a "Don't Starve" vibe.

I feel like that's a bit too long, but Stars Beyond Reach fits better.
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #302 on: October 01, 2014, 11:04:12 am »
Oh sure.  I just haven't been concerned with a character limit.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #303 on: October 01, 2014, 11:05:33 am »
Haha, yeah.
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #304 on: October 01, 2014, 11:57:49 am »
I think I prefer Final Colony of Final Colonization. The latter is a bit of a mouth full.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #305 on: October 01, 2014, 11:58:45 am »
That's a good point.
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #306 on: October 02, 2014, 09:28:13 am »
I'd play This World Is Mine.  I would at least check it out, anyway.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #307 on: October 02, 2014, 10:13:20 am »
I tend to like "This World Is Mine" best, but does it really fit fluff-wise? I.e. are the new arrivals really that aggressive and/or is this the point about them you want to stress? Otherwise that one's nice.

Until clarification I will stick with "Stars Beyond Reach" ;).
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #308 on: October 02, 2014, 10:15:13 am »
The way I read "This World is Mine" from the lore I know is that The Entity is the one who would be saying that.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #309 on: October 02, 2014, 10:27:07 am »
The way I read "This World is Mine" from the lore I know is that The Entity is the one who would be saying that.
Ah, gotcha. Well, that is valid as well, I guess :).

My only remaining gripe with it is that it's a (potentially) very humorous title (I kinda see an exclamation mark in there that's not there - like in "Orcs Must Die!").
Is this the tone you are going for?
Or is this game supposed to be a darker affair?

If so, "This World is Mine" is not really a good fit for me...
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #310 on: October 02, 2014, 10:56:08 am »
This World Is Mine is a bit ambiguous.  For some of the races who arrive (Burlusts!), they absolutely will be very aggressive.  If you aren't, the morale of them will go down and you'll have problems.  So if you choose Burlusts, you had either better be renting them a lot of violent movies or else sending them to war, heh. ;)

If you're playing as someone like the Peltians, of course you can still be warlike, but they aren't very good at it.  Still, there is a matter of acceptance that you can have "this is our town" sort of a vibe, if you see what I mean.  Rather than being aggressively claimant, it's more a matter of a statement of belonging to a new place.  Frankly, depending on how someone says it, it can be a little wistful/sad, even ("I can't believe THIS world is mine...").  I see that as kind of the Evucks, heh.

And then, as Draco18s points out, it's also something The Entity very aggressively would say.  Well, welcoming at first, actually.  But aggressively later, depending on how you play.  One of the victory conditions is actually escaping from the clutches of the world, getting back to space.  Another is blowing up the planet to save the galaxy from the entity, even at the expense of your own life (and everyone else on the planet).  Others revolve around doing what the entity wants, or meeting your own goals despite the entity not approving.  So in some respects I see this as a very ominous sort of statement, kind of like "There was a hole here.  It's gone now." (10 points for anyone who gets that reference without looking it up).

In terms of it being kind of whimsical/humorous, that is true, and that is somewhat unfortunate.  It doesn't really match the tone of the game per se... but then again, there tends to be some darkly humorous aspects to all our games, and I expect this will be no exception.  I'm also hoping that title says "this is a fun game" rather than "this is a spreadsheet where your eyes glaze over," which is an important message for this kind of game, heh.  So I think it can fit, particularly if the scary entity voice says the title in the trailer in a scary way, and if the logo itself looks dangerous/scary rather than whimsical.  Just seeing the name by itself defaults to seeming a bit funny, but no exclamation point will be forthcoming. ;)
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #311 on: October 02, 2014, 11:54:52 am »
"There was a hole here.  It's gone now." (10 points for anyone who gets that reference without looking it up).

I had to look it up.  Wasn't a piece of media that I had consumed.

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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #312 on: October 02, 2014, 11:54:58 am »
  Okay then. I'm sold ;).
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #313 on: October 02, 2014, 11:56:13 am »
"There was a hole here.  It's gone now." (10 points for anyone who gets that reference without looking it up).

I had to look it up.  Wasn't a piece of media that I had consumed.

If you're into that genre at all, you should totally. :)

  Okay then. I'm sold ;).

Cool. :)
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Re: Name our upcoming 4x (current best - This World Is Mine) (POLL 10/1)
« Reply #314 on: October 02, 2014, 11:59:17 am »
If you're into that genre at all, you should totally. :)

I am not, particularly.